Apple launches draws press. If Apple were to release something spectacular at the same time, that would draw a lot of press, downplaying the Vista release. Leopard will be spectacular, and so will iLife '07 and iWork '07 based on Leopard. To me it would make perfect sense for Apple to release all these three packages at the Vista launch date. I would love it even more if they released it all as one product. They asked us to stay tuned, I'm on my fourth double espresso and shivering with tention!

Thank you Google, they have released MacFuse. (tip from BSD News) I love FUSE with FreeBSD, but since I usually use FreeBSD for my servers and would like to use FUSE on my workstation, this is great! See Google's blog entry about it. As I write I've got a couple of SSHFS mounts up. For my work, I'm really looking forward to use something like S3FS ...

Having slept on it and digested a lot of articles, these are my comments on the iPhone announced yesterday:

• It runs OS X. In my book that means a BSD platform. I'm looking forward to having this confirmed. I so miss having BSD on my mobile.
• WiFi - thank you
• Cool browsing interface due to CoreAnimation - great!
• No UMTS/3G? Yes, we all know 3G is slow, but EDGE is way slower. What's up? I really hope the European version will sport 3G
• 2MP camera? Come on, Apple, that is SO last year!! I thought Apple was supposed to set a standard other would come running after
• Max 8GB disk? Ok, fair enough, but you already ...

The Apple TV is a device I have been looking forward to since the iTV prototype was announced. Why would I want this rather than a Mac Mini? Well.... my question is still unanswered. But these were my surprises and questions:

• Question: Ethernet and Wifi, does this device work like an Airport Extreme as well? The ethernet plug, is that gigabit ethernet or 100 mbit like the Airport Extreme? (why they didn't go for gigabit there beats me)
• No DVD, No Blueray, No HD-DVD. Seriously, guys, I don't want to have to run to another room to load my DVD. And if I had a computer in my livingroom, I'd be using it instead of the Apple TV
• 40 GB HDD is small. My 200GB disk with my iPhoto libraries and iTunes library is full and needs an ...